Word: joyousness
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Laderman's notations are more emotional signposts than they are exact directions to the choreographer. They indicate the type and the intensity of dance emotion, e.g., tense, joyous, somber, 'that he thinks appropriate at different places in the score. The notations can also indicate such basic things as 1) when the dancer should dance or stand still, 2) whether the dancer should move quickly or slowly, 3) what relation the dancer's next movements should bear to the movements just completed. To convey these directions, Laderman relies on musical notes together with music's diacritical markings...
...Joyous Mysticism. The Lubavitcher movement, deriving its name from a small town in northern Russia, was founded by Shneur Zalman (1747-1812), a brilliant young Talmudist in White Russia who became a disciple of Hasidism. This was a movement of holy men (zaddiks) and their followers who reacted against the arid, hairsplitting Talmud-boring of 17th century Judaism with a kind of joyous mysticism; they have often been compared to the followers of St. Francis of Assisi. Shneur Zalman burned with Hasidism's hitlahavut (spiritual enthusiasm), but he recognized the need for organization and teaching as well...
...world. For the past two years, a castle and a speed boat have been waiting for me in Lake Como, Italy. I could spend the last years of my life eating thousand-dollar bills, but I chose the harder road." Does that road lead back to Argentina and a joyous welcome home? Maudlin at the prospect of this vision, Juan Peroón disclosed the degree of his power sickness: "Peroónism without Peroón! It is easy to say it! It is hard to achieve it! Venezuelans stop me on the street and embrace me with tears...
...hungry nations of the Western Hemisphere, a new find even remotely like Venezuela's bountiful Lake Maracaibo area would be the joyous national equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. Last week, in nine countries within 1,500 miles of Maracaibo, the quest for black gold was on more earnestly than ever before, with U.S. oilmen leading the pack. In rain forests and cane fields, dozens of drilling rigs probed for the telltale "show...
BEYOND THE AEGEAN, by llias Ve-nezis. The lyrical recollection of a Greek boy's pre-World War I childhood in Anatolia. One of the year's most attractive novels-a remem brance of things past, explored with joyous wonder, grace and dignity...